Peering Blurrily...just peering blurrily

"The Nasty World of Online Comments," Weekday on KUOW, Aug 15, 2011, http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=24252

A point is made here that we in the United States are losing the ability to find a center. We lack unifying media, such as Britain has in BBC Today, which everybody there wakes up to and watches, according to the KUOW story. Facebook certainly facilitates finding like minded friends and forming silos vs building a community with diverse points of view. Increasing polarization.

Again, the book I read a while ago, The Big Sort, turns out to have been seminal. I thought I'd written about it. What an oversight. See citation below.